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Samsung Could Drop Bixby As Part Of Deal With Google 

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could eliminate Bixby, the virtual voice assistant, and the Galaxy Apps Store from its mobile devices under a deal with Alphabet Inc’s Google, Reuters reported. It is the latest effort by Google to convince Samsung to lose one of its services and instead promote Google’s search, Assistant and Play Store apps, a source told the news service.

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Checkout Features, Visa Interchange Rates, Gaana’s Music Service Top This Week’s News

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Mastercard CEO Pushes Back Against National Payments Systems. Mastercard CEO Ajay Banga is very much against attempts to split the Global Payments Systems into national domains. And Google Search revenues gained 16.7 Google Launches Mobile Plan Browse, Recharge Feature In India. percent to $27.2

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Google, Amazon, Facebook, And Apple Are Hiring To Defend Against The ‘Techlash’

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Google has lost employees and also faces regulation. Amazon and Google are taking PR hits from the President. Apple — like Google — faces mounting criticism over how it’s handled government censorship in China. Google & Amazon Look To Secure Privacy in The Smart Home. Facebook and WhatsApp.

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Data Dive, Rainy Days Edition: Fines, Misses And Video Game Money Laundering

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Mastercard and Google Fend Off Fines. s Google was hit with a $57 million fine Monday (Jan. France’s National Data Protection Commission fined Google on the grounds that it didn’t do enough to get the consent of users when gathering data used for targeted advertising. Mastercard got tagged with a $648.3

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The Cash Flow Impact Of Connecting AR With AP

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“Genpact and HighRadius will solve this challenge by delivering a transformative digital automation solution that enables businesses to maximize their working capital, while enhancing the customer and user experiences,” said Genpact Chief Strategy Officer Katie Stein in a statement. Cashfree Wields UPI for Both AR and AP.

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Are Mobile Payments Finally Ready To Ignite In Japan?

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In the intervening several years, several forces, most notably the Japanese government, have actively pushed to get the nation off its cash addiction — and into digital payments. If we want to change the user experience that’s based on cash, we have to continue offering benefits until people feel Line Pay is better than cash.”.

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IBM, Reliance Jio, and the chassis for digital finance

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You could also look at the things IBM is committed to doing, and see the Chinese national investment plan for 2025 : industry, trade, cloud, blockchain, telecom, artificial intelligence. If you mix together data hosting for financial services companies with machine vision, you might get Google Cloud launching Lending DocAI?—?a